![]() Those that haven’t met the wrecking ball are now often considered relics appropriate for museum-quality conservation. Demolition, at the hand of the real estate market or socially engineered slum clearance projects, was, and continues to be, a common fate for the New York row house. The old neighborhood, of course, was the opposite: Once stylish, the half-century-old row houses were host to bars and brothels. The 70-story RCA Building at its center, with its Art Deco glamour, was a symbol of progress and modernity. ![]() ![]() In 1930, 228 brownstones on twelve acres, housing an estimated 5,000 people and countless speakeasies, were razed to make way for Rockefeller Center.
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